Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.